Surprised the USS Carl-Vinson didn’t just turn itself into Bin Laden’s floating funeral pyre… A “senior defense (is that term “defense” even appropriate?) department official” describes the Muslim religious rites administered for Osama bin Laden (isn’t that grotesquely hypocritical if
by Andrew G. Bostom3 May 2011, 3:37 AM PST0
Associated Press: CAIRO — A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social media addict would do: He began sending messages on Twitter. With
by Peter Schweizer2 May 2011, 5:46 PM PST0
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Patrick Poole of Pajamas Media explains what the death of Osama bin Laden really means for US security. In the wake of his death at the hands of US Navy SEALs Team Six,
by Secure Freedom Radio2 May 2011, 4:39 PM PST0
Let this be a lesson to our current President. A Muslim man kills thousands of your countrymen, then you treat his remains with undue respect, and in the Muslim world what does it gets you? Islamic leader condemns bin Laden
by Dan Friedman2 May 2011, 3:52 PM PST0
Evidently, Osama bin Laden was tapped out, or, to be more precise, double tapped out courtesy of SEAL Team Six as he exited his Abbottabad compound for the great beyond. After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were
by Dan Riehl2 May 2011, 3:52 PM PST0
Civil war, revolution, protests and general unrest have swept through the Arab world in the past few months. What once might have been a small prairie fire–the suicide protest in Tunisia–became a widespread conflagration in part due to social media’s
by Uncommon Knowledge2 May 2011, 3:36 PM PST0
The Daily Mail reports: “Barack Obama vetoed a plan for stealth bombers to blow up Osama Bin Laden’s compound in March so special forces could get DNA evidence to confirm he was dead. The U.S. President gave the all clear
by Niccolo Machiavelli2 May 2011, 3:34 PM PST0
In the end, the Holocaust raged until the Allied powers won the war. It didn’t have to be that way. If the Jews had been permitted to leave Europe, the Holocaust could have been averted. But the only place that
by Caroline Glick2 May 2011, 2:26 PM PST0
Early in 2009, I interviewed Gen. Paul Vallely (US Army Ret.) and learned about the “lily pad” strategy — a strategy, Vallely explained, that relies on “the maximum use of unconventional forces,” such as Navy SEALS and other special forces,
by Diana West2 May 2011, 1:41 PM PST0
When news broke that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan by U.S. forces, Americans were elated. With chants of “U.S.A., U.S.A.,” citizens took to Times Square, the streets of D.C., and elsewhere to celebrate the fact that the
by AWR Hawkins2 May 2011, 1:32 PM PST0
Angry supporters of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi staged revenge attacks on Sunday, burning and looting the U.S., U.K., French, Italian and Qatari embassies in Tripoli on Sunday, according to AP. The UN was forced to evacuate its foreign staff from
by John J. Xenakis2 May 2011, 11:28 AM PST0
Our people have hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden. Thank you to all the military and other good people who tracked him down to his own sanctuary. We can only hope that the materials captured at his hiding place
by Michael Yon2 May 2011, 9:03 AM PST0
This is why the United States must declare that we will veto any unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state at the UN. From Ha’aretz: The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Monday condemned the killing by U.S. forces of Osama bin
by Joel B. Pollak2 May 2011, 7:55 AM PST0
Rejoice. But. Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion located in a “densely populated” area called Abbottabad, 30 miles outside Islamabad — not in that dark, wet cave in the North West Territories where, it was often imagined, his
by Diana West2 May 2011, 6:03 AM PST0
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by Sun Tzu2 May 2011, 5:35 AM PST0
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by Sun Tzu2 May 2011, 5:32 AM PST0
I always knew that the reason Osama Bin Laden was never located for almost 10 years was not because America was not trying hard or incompetent, but it is because he was surrounded by many Muslims who would protect him
by Nonie Darwish2 May 2011, 5:03 AM PST0
May 2, 2011 is a very solemn day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. It is observed on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. The date was chosen because it marks the day when
by Jeff Dunetz2 May 2011, 4:52 AM PST0
Just as Islamist extremists sought to use Ground Zero as a triumphal place to build their mosque, the United States should use the site to display Osama bin Laden’s naked body for all Americans to see. We have a right
by J. Michael Waller2 May 2011, 3:45 AM PST0
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Osama bin Laden is dead Osama bin Laden (file photo) Late Sunday evening, President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden was killed a week ago by a U.S. bomb delivered manually, not by
by John J. Xenakis2 May 2011, 2:27 AM PST0
The long-awaited assassination of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan is a welcome defeat for al Qaeda – and a victory for all those Americans, in uniform and out, who have worked for so many years to
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.1 May 2011, 9:21 PM PST0
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by El Cid1 May 2011, 8:50 PM PST0
Osama Bin Laden was just a part of Al-Qaeda which is just a part of the Islamic terrorist effort which is just a part of the Islamist movement, so the announcement of his death tonight by the U.S. government makes
by Daniel Pipes1 May 2011, 8:42 PM PST0
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Osama bin Laden was holed up in a two-story house 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when four helicopters carrying U.S. forces swooped early Monday, killing the world’s most wanted man and leaving his final
by Sun Tzu1 May 2011, 6:43 PM PST0